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I Hate the Bastard, But …

Gotta give credit where credit is due. This year’s USO Hope and Freedom Tour features none other than comedian Al Franken. Franken - yes, THAT Al Franken - disguised as Saddam Hussein in a skit with actress Traylor Howard (she’s the good looking blonde who plays neurotic detective Adrian Monk’s assistant) said afterwards, “It’s a real honor to meet the service members. I never served in the military, so I feel this is a little way I can give something back.” Damn! I'm impressed.

Also in the tour are the Army band, two Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, country music artists Craig Morgan, Mark Wills and Keni Thomas (Morgan and Thomas are former Rangers); and Jekob and Rachel Washington from SoulJahz. (Courtesy Army Public Affairs)


Shucks They Missed

Gunmen ambushed the motorcade of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leaving his driver and one of his bodyguards dead, however the hard-line leader escaped injury because he was not in the car at the time (not a very good plan, eh?), according to a report in the semi-official Jomhouri Islami. Ahmadinejad had been touring the troubled Sistan-Baloochestan province since Wednesday where ethnic Sunni Baluchis have been fighting for autonomy from Iran's Shiite theocratic government. (Courtesy Kavkazcenter.com)


What the Hell is THIS All About?

What do the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the self-described messiah, and Russian billionaire-in-exile, Russian Godfather Boris Berezovsky have in common? Both have been keeping company with First Brother, Neil Bush. In the past few weeks Bush has been spotted in Asia with the Rev. Moon, who is on a worldwide tour promoting world peace. (Courtesy Kavkazcenter.com)


We Don’t Hate the Jews, We Just Hate the Jews.

An op-ed in today’s Teheran Times, notes that there are 25,000 Iranian Jews living relatively unscathed in Iran and therefore how can Iran be considered anti-Semitic? We just hate the Zionists, proclaims the author, Hamid Golpira, who – among other interesting semantic and logic leaps – compares anti-Zionist Jews to anti-apartheid South Africans. Naturally the op-ed’s logic is convoluted but holds some water on first read – much like a liberal’s view of American foreign policy. Of course on second read the holes start showing. C’mon, fess up. You hate the Jews, period. Gimme a break.


And NObody Likes Al Jazeera

Banned in Iraq and Iran the internationally famous mouthpiece of terrorism worldwide now has a bunch of seminarians ticked off at it for a London-based debate it aired December 16, that purportedly bad mouthed a Shiite Grand Ayatollah.

"Once again the evil hand of world arrogance has come out of the notorious Al-Jazeera network which unveiled its hypocrite face even more than before by insulting and disrespecting his highness Ayatollah Sistani," the Association of Qom Seminary Lecturers said in a statement. Damn right. (Courtesy Teheran Times)


Speaking of Traitors

Guess who Al Jazeera quotes in a news story/op ed on 2005 being the year Geroge Bush acquired the “Medusa Touch;” i.e., everything he’s touched has “turned to stone?” They also call him "President Medusa" in the piece.

Let’s see. There’s Times.com (The New York Times), the Associated Press, and Sen. Russell Feingold, (D-WI).

Gee, I hope that goes on their resumes. Ah for the good old days when aiding and abetting the enemy was called treason, not expressing one's intellectual acumen.

May you all move to a desert and come down with rectal warts.